RE: leaving your garden behind
- Subject: RE: leaving your garden behind
- From: "Donna" j*@prairieinet.net
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 15:58:56 -0600
Monica,
Start in spring and offer cuttings to your friends. This way you can
always ask for a cutting later and retain some of your favorite plants.
I have moved a few times in my life, and have never sold to a gardener.
I have gone back to the old neighborhood to visit friends and was
heartbroken each time. Not only do they get rid of your favorite
perennials also your trees!
I never planned ahead... something happens and boom, I move. Just this
last summer we decided to get rid of our summer place. When I asked the
future owners if I could take some cuttings.... they informed me it was
all going to get dug up and replaced with non-maintenance items and take
anything I wanted... talk about a gardener in a frenzy! Dug up ever last
plant in a weekend! (and was sore for a month afterwards) I was also
thinking about taking a few trees and bushes... but DH gave me the
*look*... so I didn't, and now I am sorry .... should not have let him
intimidate me.
Donna
IL, Zone 5
>
> I have a real fear of selling my house to a non gardener. I often
wonder
> if it would be in bad taste to remove many of my plants before a move,
if
> I knew or feared that they would be thrown away ( and probably not
> composted!)
>
> Fortunately this is still a VERY moot discussion - Don't worry
Cheryl!
> Just thought I'd put this up for discussion.
>
> Monica
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